"tony" wrote in message
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Former President Reagan's sunset burial had a dissonant note for me.
The Navy flew a missing man formation over the site, and as is traditional
the second element lead position (the airplane that would have been
represented by your ring finger tip as they flew in finger tip formation)
left
its position, representing the missing man.

For this man, this president, tradition should have been broken. The
missing
man was a Leader. The lead position should have been the vacant one.


Is the missing man formation a tradition for Presidential funerals at all?
It's traditional for a fallen aviator, but I don't recall it being done for
previous Presidents. Reagan did serve in the USAAF, but not as an aviator.